The Field Guide to Ghosts and Other Apparitions: A Classification of Various Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Based on Eyewitness Accounts (Field Guides to the Unknown) - Tapa blanda

Huyghe, Patrick

 
9780380802647: The Field Guide to Ghosts and Other Apparitions: A Classification of Various Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Based on Eyewitness Accounts (Field Guides to the Unknown)
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ISBN 10: 0380802643 ISBN 13: 9780380802647
Editorial: Harper Perennial, 2000

Sinopsis

In Havana, the ghost of Ernest Hemingway has been terrifying the employees at the writer's former estate.

In Madrid, a ghost named "Ataulfo" has been haunting the museun that houses Picasso's masterpiece, Guernica.

In Washington, D.C., the vice president's daughter was so scared by a ghost's visitation that she fainted.

Ghost sightings happen every day throughout the world. Those who have never seen a ghost tend not to believe in their existence, but the experience of seeing a ghost certainly feels quite real. This entertaining cross-cultural guide to ghost sightings worldwide uses firsthand testimony and an illustrator's renderings to explore the great variety of ghost experiences that people have reported for thousands of years. You will, of course, read about ghosts of the dead, some of whom offer guidance and warning, but also about ghosts of the living, as well as what appear to be ghosts of the future. Most ghosts are of people, but they can also be of animals, things, and places -- entire ghost buildings and ghost gardens, for instance. How can we possibly explain all this? Are ghosts merely images seen in the mind's eye? Are they visitors from some alternate reality? Can they be real in an everyday material sense? Or could ghosts actually be a phenomenon of time itself?

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Reseña del editor

A lively study of ghost sightings and hauntings from around the world features an intriguing look at mysterious incidents at Hemingway's Cuban estate, Madrid's Reina Sofia art museum, and the White House, and answers frequently asked questions about the paranormal and the supernatural. Original.

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Editorial
Harper Perennial
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0380802643
ISBN 13 
9780380802647
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
176
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